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DRAMAS. 

2 A Desperate Game 3 2 

164 After Ten Years 7 5 

39 A Life's Revenge 7 5 

43 Arrah de Baugh 7 5 

100 Aurora Floyd 7 3 

125 Auld Robin Gray 25c 13 3 

Beauty of Lyons.... 11 2 

113 Bill Detrick 6 4 

14 Brigands of Calabria 6 1 

160 Conn; or Love's Victory 11 3 

161 'Dora 5 2 

60 Driven to the AVall 10 3 

152 Driven from Home 7 4 

173 East Lynne 7 6 

143 Emigrant's Daughter 8 3 

176 Factory Girl 6 3 

162 Fielding Manor 9 6 

117 Hal Hazard, 25c 8 3 

207 Heroic Dutchman of '76 8 3 

52 Henry Granden 11 8 

76 How He Did It 3 2 

141 Hidden Treasures 4 2 

26 Hunter of the Alps 9 4 

191 Hid !en Hand 10 fi 

194 Lights and Shadows of the 

Great Rebvillion 25 cts 10 5 

3 Lady of Lyons 12 5 

9 Lady Audley's Secret 6 4 

46 Man and Wife 12 7 

211 Midnight Mistake 6 2 

163 Miriam's Crime 5 2 

91 Michael Erie 8 3 

36 Miller of Derwent Water 5 2 

34 Mistletoe Bough 7 3 

81 Old Phil's Birthday 5 2 

85 Outcast's Wife 12 3 

83 Ou on the World 5 4 

196 0;th Bound 5 3 

29 Painter of Ghent 5 2 

18 Poac er's Doom 8 3 

110 Reverses 12 6 

45 Rock Allen 5 3 

79 Spy of Atlanta, 25 cts 14 3 

144 Thekla 6 7 

67 The False Fr end 6 1 

97 The Fatal Blow 7 1 

119 The Forty-Niners 10 4 

93 The Gentleman in Black 9 4 

112 The New Magdalen 8 3 

71 The Reward (f Crime 5 3 

105 Through Snow and Sunshine. 6 4 
7 The Vow of the Ornaui 8 1 

201 Ticket of Leave Man 9 3 

193 Toodles 6 2 

200 Uncle Toms Cabin 15 i 

121 Will-o'-the-Wisp 9 4 

41 Won at Last 7 3 

192 Zion 7 4 

TEMPERANCE PLAYS. 

73 At Last 7 1 

75 Adrift 6 4 

187 Aunt Dinah's Pledge 7 3 



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Drunkard's Warning 6 

Drunkard's Doom 15 

Fifteen Years of a Drunk- 
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Fruit > of the Wine Cup 6 

Lost 6 

Our Awful Aunt 4 

Out in the Streets 6 

Rescued 5 

Saved 2 

Turn of the Tide 7 

Three Glasses a Day 4 

Ten Nights in Bur Room 7 

Wrecked 9 

COMEDIES. 

A Pleasure Trip 7 

A Legal Holiday 5 

An Afflicted Family 7 

Caste 5 

Home 4 

Love's Labor Not Lost 3 

New Years in N, Y 7 

Not So Bad After All 6 

Our Daughters 8 

Passions 8 

The Biter Bit fi 

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FARCES AND COMEDIETTAS. 

129 Aar-u-ag-oos 2 

132 Actor and Servant 2 

12 A Capital Match 3 

166 A Texan Mother-iii-Law 4 

30 A Day Well Spent 7 

\m A Regular Fix 5 

80 Alarmingly Suspicious 4 

78 An Awful Criminal 3 

-65 An Unwelcome Return 3 

31 A Pet of the Public 4 

21 A Romantic Attaehin nt 3 

12: J , A Thrilling Item 3 

20 A T cket of Leave 3 

175 Betsey Baker 2 

8 Better Half 5 

86 Black vs White 4 

22 Captain Smith 3 

84 Cheek Will Win 3 

49 Der Two Surprises 1 

72 Deuce is in Him 5 

19 Did I Dream it 4 

42 Domestic Felic'ty 1 

188 Dutch Prize Fighter 3 

148 Eh? What Did You Say S 

154 Fun in a Post orVee 4 

184 Family Discipline 1 

209 Goose with the G olden Eggs.. 5 

13 Give Me My Wife..: 3 

66 Hans, the Dutch J. P. 3 

116 Hash 4 

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Characters represented, first produced at the Opera 
House at Fincastle, Va., July 2d. 1886. 

Joseph Casper, - Landlord. 

Pete, (a Negri)) - - B. Hayth. 

Beter, {a Dutchmen) - - James 0. Luster' 



Costumes suitable for the char 



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Time of performance— fifteen minutes. 



Scene— A plain interior. 



DUTCHEY VS. NIGGER. 



SCENE. — Plain interior. 

Landlord. Well, well, what to do with my two ser- 
vants, is more than I can determine. They are forever 
quarreling and fighting. To leave the house is but to find 
^, on my return, in an uproar. They are both, servants 
thoroughly acquainted with their vocations, so if I turn 
either off I may not be able to fill their places by hiring a 
new one. Here, but yesterday, I stepped out a few minutes 
on some urgent business, when I returned, I found them 
fighting. Well, I think I'll talk the matter over with them 
and endeavor to bring this annoyance to an end. 

Beter. [outside) Oh, my ! don't you do dot agin] 

Pete, (outside) Git out you old sourkraut ! 

Zand. There they are now, and of course quarreling. 
(goes to door c, calls) Beter ! Pete ! Come here ! 

Miter Beter and Pete, c. d. 

Land. Now see here, you two servants, I am necessari- 
ly forced to be more stringent with you. This quarreling 
must be stopped, I don't propose to put up with it any 
longer. 



£ DtJTCHEY VS. NIGGERi 

Beter. {angry) Veil, dot fellow vas always fooling mid 
me, and I don'd have him do dot. 

Pete, You hear dat, massa ? Dat's de way he does. 
He's always gittin up on his head 'bout nothing. 

Beter. Veil, veil, I done vas have no nigger fooling mid 
me ; I don'd like him anyvay. 

Beter goes to sit down, Pete pulls chair from under Mm. 
Pete exits r. Beter jumps up and tool's around, 
rum to Landlord. 

Beter. Vot you pulled dot chair from under me dot vay 
and drops me kerflummix on de floor? 

Land. You are mistaken, sir, it was not me, it must 
have been your awkwardness. 

Beter. Veil, I dinks purty quick how I missed dot chair, 
but no understand how dot vas. 

Land, That is not for me to explain, sir. 

Beter. Veil, veil, dot's all right, I don'd mean some 
dings. I don'd know how dot chair slides from under me 
dot vay midout any provocation. 

Land, I hope the like will not occur again, at any rate. 
Beter, I have some important business to attend to, down 
town, and will leave the business in your care; so I hop e 
you will see that things are quiet during my absence. 

Beter. Yaw, yaw, I tends to dere business, {exit Land- 
lord, l.) Veil, veil, I don'd know vat to make of dot chair 
business, {sits c. of stage) Dot fellow says he don'd vas 
done it, and clot chair he don'd valk off mid himself dot vay. 

Pete enters r., runs across stage, falls over Beter, jumps 
up and exits l. 

Beter. {getting up slowly) Veil, how vas dot ? Dot fel- 



DUTCHEY VS. NIGGERS 5 

low better not come back here some more times, or I puts a 
head on him so quick vat I can. {sits C 

Enter Pete l. ; with concealed chib. 

Pete. Say, old sourkraut, did you see dat fellow run- 
ning down de street wid dat ham of meat? 

Beter. (jumps up excited) Vere he vas, vere he vas ! 

Pete strikes him with cluh, Beter falls, Pete runs offu. 

Beter. (getting up) Vat vas clot vat struck me ? I 
dinks dis vas one bad house ; dere vas no living in beace 
here, so I dinks I vill see if dere boss can oxplain dot mat- 
ter, (exit L. 
Miter Pete r., in haste, 

Pete. Say ! Why he's gwine away. Golly, Fs made 

it hot for dat old Dutchman, since he's been here. I ain't 
gwine to hab him nosin' 'round my business. He looked 
kinder 'stonished when I rolled in on him so sudden like. 
De next time I's gwine to make him think a sugarcane jisb 
passed along. He called me a black African. If he don't 
look out I's gwine to spile some ob his expectations and 
show him what a black African is. 

(piles chairs up at door 

Miter Landlord, l., 

Zand. Pete, what are you doing ? 

Pete. Oh, nuffin, boss, I's jist pilin' dem cheers up sol 
could spread myself wid de broom widout any interference. 
(aside) Oh, what a big one. 

Land. Put those chairs to right, sir. Where is Beter? 
. Don't know, boss, if you have any 'megiate use for 
hiui, I'll go out and give de signal. 



6 DTJTCHEY VS. NIGGER. 

Land. Go call him, I wish to speak to him. 

Pete, {goes to door, calls) Say! you — you — old SOtif* 
kraut, de bos wants to have an interview wid you. 

Land. Pete, don't let me hear you address him in that 
way again. 

Pete. Didn't mean no harm, boss, declare I didn't, 
couldn't jist think of his name. 

Land. Go to the Office and get my mail, (exit Pete r. 

Enter Beter, l. 

Land. Well, Beter, I suppose you have kept everything 
quiet during my absence. 

Beter. Yaw, yaw, I keeps everyding quiet but mine self 
and I don'd could keep him quiet, ven he vas kicked around 
like one bag of shavings. 

Land. I am truly sorry you have been so badly treated, 
and hope the like will not occur again. 

Enter Pete r., tmperceived, stoops down behind Beter. 

Beter. Veil, if dem fellers fools mid me a couple or 
dhree times more, purty quick some body gits hurt, {backs 
sloivly) Dis vas a bad business, (falls over Pete, who 
runs offn., Beter jumps up and follows Pete meets 
him at door rims up against him, Beter falls, jumps up) 
I don'd vas have dem fetlers dreat me dot way for noddings. 
(gets behind wing) I wait for dot nigger, I don'd have him 
breaks me up dot way. 

Enter Pete on a rim, Beter follows. They exit one wing 
enter another, cross stage and bach again, runs against 
Landlord, Pete falls backward against Beter, both, 
falling. General business of getting up. 

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How Sister Paxey got her 

Child Baptized 2 1 

How She has Own Way 1 3 

How He Popped the Quest'n. 1 1 

How to Tame M-in-Law 4 2 

How Stout Your Getting 5 2 

In the Wrong Box 3 

In the Wrong Clothes 5 3 

John Smith 5 3 

Jumbo Jum.. 4 3 

Killin? T me 1 1 

Kittie's Wedding Cake 2 2 

Lick Skillet Wedding.. 2 2 

Lodgings for Two 3 

Matrimonial Bliss 1 1 

Mother's Fool 6 1 

Mr. and Mrs. Pringle 7 2 

Mr. Hudson's Tiger Hunt 1 1 

My Heart's in Highlands 4 3 

*' y Precious Betsey 4 4 

My Turn Next 4 3 

M Wife's Relations 4 4 

My Day and Now-a-Days 1 

Obedience 1 2 

On the Sly 3 2 

Paddy Miles' Boy 5 2 

Persecuted Dutchman 6 3 

Poor Pilicody 3 2 

Quiet Family 4 4 

Rough Diamond.. '. 6 3 

Ripples 2 

Sch:iaps 1 1 

Sewing Circle of Period 5 

S. H. A. M. Pinafore 5 3 

Somebody's Nobody 3 2 

Taking the Census 1 1 

Th it Mysterious B'dle 2 2 

Tue Bewitched Closet 5 2 

The Cigarette 4 2 

The Coming Man 3 1 

Turn Him Out 3 3 

The Sham Professor 4 

The Two T. J's 4 2 

Thirty-three Next Birthday.. 4 2 

Tit for Tat 2 1 

Vermont Wool Dealer 5 3 

Wanted a Husband 2 1 

When Woman Weep 3 2 

Wooing Under Difficulties..... 4 3 

Which will he Marry 2 8 

Widower's Trials 5 4 

Waking Him Up 1 2 

Why they Joined the Re- 
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An Unhappy Pair 

Black Shoemaker 

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Chops 

Cuff's Luck 

Crimps Trip 

Fetter Lane to Gravesend 

Haunted House 

Handy Andy 

Joe's Vis t 

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Musical Darkey 

No Cure No Pay 

Not as Deaf as He Seems 

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Pomp's Pranks 

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Rooms to Let 

School 

Seeing Bosting 

Sham Doctor 

16,000 Years Ago 

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Stocks Up, Stocks Down 

That Boy Sam 

The Select School 

The Popcorn Man 

The Studio 

Those Awful Boys 

Twain's Dodging 

Tricks 

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U. S. Mail 

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Villkens and Dinah 

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Who Stole the Chickens 

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220 Dutchey vs. Nigger. An original sketch in 1 scene, by James 0. 
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221 Solon Shingle; or the People's Lawyer. A comedy in 2 acta, 
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modern. Time of performance about I hour. 

226 Brae the Poor House Girl. A drama in three nets, by C. L. Piper. 
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227 Maud's Peril. A drama in 4 acts, by Watts Phillips, 5 males :{ females. 
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228 Lauderbauch's Little Surprise. An Original farce in one scene, 
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modern. Place. any where. Time of performance 20 minutes, 

229 The Mountebanks- A Specialty-drama in 4 acts, by Fred. (i. An- 
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effective and artistic. The drama is replete with fine situations, and unlooked- or 
developments. Mirth and sadness are Well combined. Costumes modern. Time 
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230 Hamlet the Dainty. An Ethiopian burlesque on Shakespeore'n 
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231 Match for a Mother-in-Law. A Comedietta in 1 act, by Wyberl 
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and the mother-in-law. constitutes the dramatis persona'. Very su table for private 
und amateur use, as well as professional. Costumes modern. Interior scene. Time 
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232 Stage Struck Yankee. A faree in 1 act. by 0. E. Durivage, 4 male.-,. 
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2 miles'. 1 f male. An e cellent darkey plav, full of good situations and sparkling 
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